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New and Renovated: Innovative Spaces for Small Meetings

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Baraboo Supper Club is named for Baraboo, Wisconsin, and is the ideal place to enjoy brandy old fashioneds, prime rib, relish trays and boozy ice cream. Convene’s classic high-tech, including built-in video screens, video cameras, microphones and speakers make for a perfectly modern meeting.

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Is Your Meeting Storm Ready?

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According to authorities, at least five people have been killed in Wisconsin, Georgia and North Carolina as a result. Before the storm hits, it’s advisable to communicate with attendees, vendors and speakers. Nearly 89,000 New Yorkers lost power before 8 p.m. Tuesday, according to poweroutage.us.

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How a Dairy Producers Conference Doubled Its Reach With Virtual

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Speakers for a Professional Dairy Producers of Wisconsin conference film their presentations at the Monona Terrace Community and Convention Center in Madison. As Cassandra Strupp, program manager for the Professional Dairy Producers of Wisconsin (PDPW), watched the evening news on March 11, she knew she had a problem.

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Meeting in a Pandemic, Part Two: Back to Face-to-Face

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A year after converting their annual business conference to an online event, the Professional Dairy Producers of Wisconsin (PDPW) returned to an in-person event in March, 2021. Held March 17-18 at Kalahari Resorts and Conventions, in Wisconsin Dells, Wisconsin, the PDPW Business Conference drew approximately 900 in-person participants.

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Energize Attendees with New Approaches to Breaks

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Janet Sperstad, program director for event management at Madison Technical College in Wisconsin, is seeing more meetings where sessions aren’t necessarily shorter, but speakers and topics within a session change every 20 minutes. At one session she attended, each changeover to a new speaker came with a five-minute break.

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That’s a wrap on Event Tech Live Las Vegas 2023

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People were back, remarkably fresh-faced, from the Royal Crawl which had stretched far beyond midnight, building on associations made at the show and finding out more about ideas seen on display or heard about from speakers.

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Embracing the Digital Opportunity

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In March, despite the fact that the Professional Dairy Producers of Wisconsin (PDPW) had never before offered an online education component to their annual meeting, the association converted a face-to-face meeting to a virtual one in just seven days. Illustrations by Celyn Brazier). In all honesty,” she added, “canceling wasn’t an option.”.

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